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Joseph B. Sartell, founder of Sartell

One
of the first settlers of the community was Joseph B. Sartell who
arrived in 1854. He worked as a millwright at a local sawmill.
In 1877 Mr. Sartell opened a flour mill on the Watab River, near the
present day Watab Creek Park, and in 1884 he and his sons started
the Sartell Brothers Lumber Company.